BOYS BELIEVED MURDERED
EVIDENCE UNCOVERED BY POLICE
SYDNEY, Nov. 21
Evidence uncovered in the last two days has led the police to believe that two boys, aged seven, whose bodies were found three weeks ago in a limestone cave at Portland, near Lithgow, were murdered. Th*e police are searching for a quarryman, aged 25, who has been missing since the day after the boys were last seen alive. The boys, Albert Spiers and John Ward, left a display at the local showground about 5.30 p.m. on October 30, but did not arrive home. For several days thousands of people, including all the local miners, scoured the countryside without success. The bodies were found on November 4 in a cave 140 feet down in the sheer face of a quarry 220 feet deep. Decomposition and wounds inflicted after death by rats prevented the cause of death being definitely established. The police at first believed that the boys died of fright, but this theory was not accepted by the local inhabitants.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 71, Issue 36, 22 November 1950, Page 8
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